As an unexpected reward for an unpaid job, Mal finds himself married to a naïve, subservient young woman named Saffron (Christina Hendricks).
Mal dances with a beautiful young woman, who gives him a wreath and a bowl of wine to drink, while the village elder gives Jayne a wooden rainstick.
After Serenity is underway again, Mal encounters a stowaway in the cargo bay: the young woman from the party, who gives her name as Saffron and informs him that she is his wife.
Mal has Jayne put Vera inside a space suit, then fire a bullet outside at a vulnerable portion of the net, disabling it.
Jayne also shoots out the glass window of the operators' control unit, causing the two men to be asphyxiated by the vacuum of space.
After they leave, River takes a pillow from nearby and puts it in her dress at the stomach, stating that she and Simon have to get married now: "I'm in the family way."
Joss Whedon said on the DVD commentary that this was one of his, the cast's and the crew's favorite scenes, but they had to edit it out due to time constraints.
According to Jayne, "Vera" needs oxygen around her to fire; however, real-world gunpowder incorporates both fuel and oxidizer and will combust regardless of the presence or absence of atmosphere.
It is possible that the limitation deals more with the action of the rifle, because some metals normally made to work in an atmosphere will vacuum weld together with no air present.